Introduction to Radical Medicine

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I N T R O D U C T I O N

An Apple a Day Wonrsquot Keep the Doctor Awayhellip

hellip983150983151983154 983139983137983150 983156983144983141 most optimum diet possible drinking pure water exercising regularly

or even diligently supplementing with mega-doses of vitamins and minerals insure

the preservation of good health for most Americans Unfortunately in these modern

toxic times our immune systems have been subjected to poisons unparalleled in pre-

vious centuries and unimaginable by our earlier ancestors The placement of toxic

mercury amalgam fillings in our mouths the pervasive petrochemicals polluting our

homes and environment the injection of DNA-damaging childhood vaccinations and

the excessive use of antibiotics and other prescription drugs are just a sample of the

modern traumatizing effects that have rendered many individuals chronically ill and

perhaps in some cases essentially incapable of ever truly getting well Until these

and other ldquoobstacles to curerdquo are adequately addressed general guidelinesmdashalthough

important to maintain a healthy lifestylemdashare simply no longer adequate to fend off

degenerative disease and help individuals regain their birthright of optimal healthi

Indeed in our current toxic environment much more radical measures are required

I A Terminal Diagnosis for Modern Medicine

Many health-minded individuals have gone to great lengths to feel better They

have purchased water filters shop often at health food stores take nutritional supple-

ments and try to exercise regularly Some have gone even further and avoid their pri-

mary food allergy purchase herbal and homeopathic remedies when they get sick and

do ongoing personal growth work And yet for the majority of even these highly mo-

tivated individuals the abundant energy vitality and feeling of wellbeing that define

optimum health are rarely realized Further many live in fearmdashoften unconscious-

lymdashof succumbing later in life to cancer heart disease Alzheimerrsquos or any of the other



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2

devastating illnesses that have become so epidemic in our modern world And sadly

the long awaited cures that doctors numerous charities and associations and various

telethons have been promising us for decades are ldquojust around the cornerrdquo continue

to remain elusive

bull CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASEmdashOUR NUMBER ONE KILLER

In 1900 the number of deaths resulting from heart attacks was 27427 in 2002

it was 696947ii These figures themselves dramatically depict the obvious failure of

modern medicine to find an adequate treatment for heart disease However when

another figure is added to the equationmdashthe 22 billion donated to the American

Heart Association since 1949 to find a curemdashthis failure is all the more conspicu-

ousiii In fact cardiovascular diseasemdasha more recently utilized category that encom-

passes all forms of heart disease including heart attacks congestive heart failure andstrokesmdashis currently the leading cause of death and disability in the US accounting

for 1400000 deaths in 2002iv 1

bull CANCERmdashWErsquoRE NOT WINNING THE WAR

In 1900 three percent of Americans were diagnosed with cancer during their life-

time Less than four decades later between 1907 and 1936 cancer rates had risen by

an astounding ninety percentvi Finally in 1971 President Nixon declared a ldquoWar on

Cancerrdquo and Congress passed the National Cancer Act to try and quell this epidemicdiseasevii

Based on numerous media reports over the next several decades it did appear that

allopathic medicine was making progress in treating this devastating disease with

chemotherapy radiation and surgery However the National Cancer Institute recently

reported that these previously optimistic reports on the decline of several types of

cancer were actually false and simply reflected significant delays in the reporting

of cancer cases In fact in 2002 this Institute revealed that many cancer rates have in

reality been on the rise including breast and lung cancer in women and prostate can-

cer in menviii

And although the often-touted incidence of lung cancer has declined inmen this has nothing to do with new medical treatments or advances in science but

correlates directly with the decline in smoking that began with the surgeon generalrsquos

emphasis on quitting in 1964 and the subsequent widespread advertising and educa-

1 Although it was recently reported that cancer had eclipsed heart disease as the number one disease killer thisstatistic did not include Americans over the age of eighty-five Further it only accounted for heart disease (myocardialinfarctions or heart attacks and angina pectoris or chest pain) and excluded other heart ailments that make up the

broader category of cardiovascular disease However when all ailments of the heart and circulatory system areincluded within this broader category cardiovascular disease far outweighs deaths from cancer (Maugh II T CancerNo1 killer in US Santa Rosa The Press Democrat Jan 20 2005)



Introduction

3

tional efforts launched to propagate the hazards inherent in this dangerous habitix x 2

Despite this reduction in lung cancer due to quitting smoking cancer remains our

number two killer and was responsible for 557271 deaths in 2002xi Indeed even the

ratio of cancer rates have risen from the previous rate of affecting approximately one

in three individuals to the present percentages estimated by the American Cancer

Society of striking approximately fifty percent of all men and forty percent of all womenxii xiii And as with cardiovascular disease although for the last thirty years the medical

establishment has been given over forty billion dollars in donations to find a cure we

are actually no closer to ldquowinning the warrdquo on cancer than we were a century agoxiv

bull ALLOPATHIC3 MEDICAL TREATMENTmdash(AT LEAST) THE THIRD

LEADING KILLER

In the Summer of 2000 the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA)reported that the annual death rate from iatrogenic4 causesmdashthat is deaths caused

by doctors through the adverse effects of prescription drugs and surgery errors in

medical judgment and nosocomial5 (hospital-induced) infectionsmdashwas estimated at

2250006 annually rendering it the third leading cause of death in the US just behind

cardiovascular disease and cancerxv This statistic would be shocking in and of itself

if it werenrsquot for the fact that this 225000 figure only included deaths occurring in hos-

pitals and therefore excluded outpatient iatrogenic deaths estimated to be 190000

annually Additionally the author of this JAMA article Barbara Starfield a physician

and researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health further dis-

2 The incidence of smoking in men began to decline in 1964 after the Surgeon Generalrsquos warning first became publicon the dangers of tobacco However the number of female smokers continued to grow for another twenty yearsOverall though the proportion of Americans of both sexes who smoke fell from forty-two percent in 1965 to twenty-two percent in 2000 And due to this reduction womenrsquos lung cancer rates are predicted to also decline (Santa RosaPress Democrat Jan 20 2005 p A5)3 The term allopathic literally means ldquoother than or against the diseaserdquo Thus allopathy is the treatment of diseasethat utilizes surgery as well as prescription drugs that are antagonistic and suppressive to the disease symptomseg anti-histamines anti biotics antiinflammatories or through the removal (-ectomy) of diseased tissues such as

in appendectomies hysterectomies tonsillectomies and so forth Medical as well as osteopathic physicians are taughtallopathic principles and practices in their respective medical colleges4 The term iatrogenic from the Greek words iatros meaning ldquophysicianrdquo and gennan meaning ldquoto producerdquo refers toany adverse state or condition produced by a doctor due to poor treatment5 The term nosocomial derives from the Greek roots nosos meaning ldquodiseaserdquo and komeion meaning ldquoto take care ofrdquo Itrefers to any disease originating in a medical institution or hospital6 This figure of 225000 is only the mortality or death rate It does not include the effect of allopathic care onmorbiditymdashthat is chronic illness or disability as a result of adverse reactions to prescription drugs errors in medical

judgment or nosocomial infectionsThe breakdown of each category within this estimated iatrogenic death rate of 225000 is

12000 deaths per year from unnecessary surgery 7000 deaths per year from medication errors in hospitals 20000 deaths per year from other errors in hospitals

80000 deaths per year from nosocomial infections and 106000 deaths per year from nonerror adverse effect of medications (Starfield B Is US health really the best in the world JAMA Volume 284 4 p 483)



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4

closed that this estimate of 225000 was much lower than the figures arrived at by the

Institute of Medicinersquos (IOM) study the previous year in which iatrogenic deaths were

estimated to range from 230000 to 284000 annually

It is also essential to keep in mind one other crucial fact typically iatrogenic deaths

are grossly underreported due to physiciansrsquo natural reluctance to admit fault7 In this

same JAMA article Dr Starfield divulged that ldquomost deaths resulting from these un-

derlying [iatrogenic] causes are likely to be recorded according to the immediate cause

of death (such as organ failure)rdquo8 Thus most deaths that result primarily as a result

of the adverse effects of drugs surgery or nosocomial (hospital-induced) infections

receive a diagnostic code of the secondary cause of death such as heart failure or kidney

failure

Taking these three factors in mindmdashthe exclusion of outpatient iatrogenic deaths

(190000) JAMArsquos conservative estimate of iatrogenic deaths as compared to the IOMrsquos

the year before (230000ndash284000) and the natural inclination of physicians to not admit

fault by recording deaths according to the immediate cause of mortality rather than

the primary iatrogenic factor ( deaths)mdashleads to the even more startling possibility

that this infamous doctor-induced third place in mortality may be dangerously con-

servative That is if all doctorsmdashthose practicing in hospitals large clinics as well as

in smaller officesmdashbegan to properly code and report the real cause of their patientrsquos

death honestly this iatrogenic death rate could very possibly eclipse our number two

killer cancer and might even surpass the number one killer itself cardiovascular dis-

ease

These appalling statistics are such a frank indictment of the hazards of modern

allopathic medicine that they are almost too unimaginable for the mind to compre-

hend However these figures do not emanate from an angry counter culture publica-

tion that could be viewed with suspicion but from the highest bastions of medicine

itselfmdashJohns Hopkins University and the Journal of the American Medical Association

It is also important to point out that these iatrogenic deaths are not a new phenom-

enon and are only secondary for example to a recent spate of newly approved toxic

drugs or current imprudent hospital procedures As reported in another JAMA article

published in 1998 an extensive meta-analysis of the electronic databases of hospitals

from 1966 to 1996 revealed that the incidence of fatal adverse drug reactions (ADRrsquos)

caused by prescription medications alone have remained quite stable over the last thirty

7 What percentage of doctors are going to risk losing their license and livelihood by admitting fault through honestlyreporting deaths caused from extremely toxic chemotherapy (and other) drugs excessive doses of radiation unwisesurgery in an already weakened patient and so forth in this highly litigious society Further complicating the issuemany patients die nowadays while taking two seven and even over ten medications at the same time This typicalprotocol of ldquopolypharmacyrdquo can baffle even the most erudite toxicologist seeking the actual cause of death And thepossibility of funding by the allopathic medical-pharmaceutical industry to have more autopsies performed to shedlight on this matter is not very likely8

ldquoMore consistent use of ldquoErdquo codesrdquo Dr Starfield asserts such as ldquoComplications of Surgical and Medical Carerdquo (ICDcodes 960-979 and 996-999) ldquomight improve the recognition of the magnitude of their effectrdquo (Starfield B Is US healthreally the best in the world JAMA Volume 284 4 p 483)



Introduction

5

yearsxvi In fact the authors in this longitudinal study chose to exclude deaths caused

by errors in drug administration to show that ldquothere are a large number of serious

ADRrsquos even when the drugs are properly prescribed and administeredrdquoxvii9 However

even when these researchers excluded medical errors unnecessary surgeries and nos-

ocomial infections ADRrsquos alone were still estimated to be between the fourth and

sixth leading causes of death in the US for the last three decadesxviii 10

When another alarming statistic is additionally factored inmdashthat although the US

spends billions on health care out of thirteen countries it ranks an average of twelfth

(second from the bottom) in regard to sixteen health indicators (eg neonatal mortal-

ity life expectancy etc)mdashdefending Americarsquos present system of health care becomes

even more untenablexix 11

Most recently (May 2006) ldquostunning new researchrdquo revealed that even though the

US spends double the amount on health care on its citizens than England Americans

still have higher rates of diabetes strokes lung disease and cancerxx Even when the

researchers ldquocrunched numbersrdquo to remove the influence of lifestyle factors such as

obesity Americans were still found to be approximately twice as unhealthy as their

British counterpartsxxi 12 Dr Michael Marmot an epidemiologist and co-author of the

study even found that ecconomic status was not a factor In fact the richest third of

Americans were shockingly found to be in worse health than the poorest third of the

Englishxxii However no researchers speculated on the most likely culprit of our spec-

tacularly high morbidity and mortality ratesmdashthe United Satesrsquo strong financial com-

mitment to the allopathic medical and pharmaceutical industry and this industryrsquos

very real and fatal ldquoside-effectsrdquo Thus the primary tools of prescription drugs and sur-

gery that modern medicine uses to purportedly heal disease have actually reached the

infamous position of being one of its top killersmdashrendering the cure often worse than the

disease

The initiation of real change and reform in this seriously flawed state of medical

practice has a rather pessimistic prognosis due to the vise-like grip pharmaceutical com-

9 A recent (July 2006) study on just the effects of medication errors found that 15 million people are harmed every

year and that at least 7000 of these individuals are killed annually by these iatrogenic mistakes This study furtherrevealed that hospitalized patients on average are subjected to one medication error every single day (Maugh T Drugmistakes hurt or kill 15 million each year in US Santa Rosa The Press Democrat Friday July 21 2006 pp A1 andA13)10 It is important to point out that the researchers also counted deaths from heart disease and strokes separately ratherthan including them in the broad category of cardiovascular disease as Dr Starfieldrsquos study did This rendered ADRrsquosranking fourth with an estimated 137000 deaths per year after heart disease cancer and stroke rather than third aftercardiovascular disease and cancer And when the researchers applied the more conservative lower estimate of 76000ADRrsquos ranked as the sixth leading cause of death after pulmonary disease and accidents (which again would havemoved up to fifth place if the researchers would have used the broader category of cardiovascular disease) (Lazorou

J et al Incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADR) in hospitalized patients JAMA Volume 279 15 April 15 1998 pp1200ndash1205)11 Countries in order of their average ranking (with first being the best) included Japan Sweden Canada France

Australia Spain Finland the Netherlands the United Kingdom Denmark Belgium the US and Germany12 Englandrsquos health care system is considered to be generally inferior to its neighbors including France andGermany



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6

panies maintain over the majority of doctors For example in the January 26 2006 edi-

tion of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) it was reported that the

pharmaceutical industry spends approximately ninety percent of its twenty-one billion

annual marketing budget on promotions for doctors (approximately $13000 per practic-

ing physician annually) in an effort to influence their prescribing behaviorxxiii xxiv And in

a related study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2004 the authors

revealed that the pharmaceutical industry funds the majority of allopathic physiciansrsquo

continuing medical education programs accounting for $900 million of the one billion

spent on this mandatory ongoing trainingxxv Additionally as reported in another JAMA

study published in 2005 the pervasive influence pharmaceutical companies wield does

not simply start when an MD receives hisher license to practice but begins in medical

school where drug companies spend an estimated twelve billion annually on weekly

promotions and teaching materialsxxvi In fact these researchers found that by the third

year medical students either receive a gift or go to an event sponsored by a drug com-

pany approximately once a week resulting in an ldquoenvironment with progressively fewer

boundaries between medicine and the pharmaceutical industryrdquoxxvii

And perhaps even more disturbing when the American Medical Association at-

tempted in 2002 to educate physicians about the ethical guidelines governing gifts from

drug companies $645000 of their $695000 education budget was funded by none other

than the drug companies themselvesxxviii Thus our present ldquobought and paid forrdquo medi-

cal system has not only failed to provide the promised cures for serious disease but it

has increasingly come under the pervasive influence of profit-motivated pharmaceutical

drug companiesxxix And since prescription drug sales are the fastest-growing portion

of health-care costsmdashat a rate of approximately twelve percent per yearmdashthe number of

iatrogenic-induced deaths can only be expected to risexxx 13

In conclusion it must be remembered that there are many allopathic physicians and

scientists who are truly caring dedicated and sincerely working hard to find real an-

swers behind this modern epidemic of chronic and degenerative disease But it is timemdash

in fact it is past timemdashfor these physicians and scientists as well as the pharmaceutical

industry insurance companies government agencies and the general public to stop and

take a hard and unbiased look at these frightening statistics that reveal the very serious

level of dysfunction in Americarsquos current health care practices

II Holistic Medicine Presently Insufficient

Clearly allopathic Western medicine is an ailing system and in light of its alarm-

ing iatrogenic statistics and dangerous treatments it is hard to imagine how it could

ever be a viable solution to our present health care crisis But many may ask if holistic

medicine is truly the answer and if it is a viable alternative in the treatment of serious

13 Twelve percent is an average figure prescription drug sales grew at the highest ever-recorded ratemdasheighteenpercentmdashin 1999 (Angell M The Truth About Drug Companies p xii)



Introduction

7

disease It certainly seemed to be in former timeshellip

From the 1700rsquos through the early 1900rsquos famous natural healers such as Priessnitz

and Kneipp of Europe and Lust and Lindlahr in America claimed seemingly miracu-

lous cures for asthma rheumatism tuberculosis and even smallpox and syphilisxxxi xxxii Perhaps even more astonishing is that these men facilitated these cures purely

through natural methods such as hot and cold hydrotherapy (water treatments) helio-

therapy (sun bathing) herbs fresh air rest and simple whole foodsxxxiii These ldquonature

curesrdquo sound quite remarkablemdashand even highly improbablemdashtoday And in actual-

ity the doubt that arises in most readerrsquos minds is not only understandable but for the

most part quite valid in regard to this issue because in the majority of cases these

natural measures truly are no longer effective enough to treat modern-day diseases or

dysfunction

So what has changed No one would argue that the world certainly has but few

are aware of the major effect modern toxins have wrought on our bodies Although the

modern industrialized world has afforded us good sanitation and freedom from much

of the drudgery of the past it has also brought with it air and water pollution chemical

preservatives in our foods and toxic metals that poison the earth as well as our bod-

ies In addition to these external stressors we suffer the liability of inherited genetic

weakness that these pollutants have caused in our damaged forefathers and foremoth-

ers Put simply wersquore just no longer the sturdy stock that most of our grandparents (or

great grandparents depending on your age) were We therefore currently suffer from

the double violation of both a weakened genetic inheritance from our twentieth century-

born parents as well as from the toxic medical dental and environmental assaults we

were subjected to during our formative immune-system building years Ask any older

chiropractor who used to heal a childrsquos ear infection with only one cervical (neck) ad-

justment or any retired naturopaths who remember curing menstrual cramps through

a few hydrotherapy sessionsmdashpatients simply do not respond like they used to

From this modern day double-whammy of nature (genetic weakness) as well as

nurture (environmental toxicity) general holistic health guidelines are simply no

longer efficacious Add to this the fact that too many patients present to the holistic

physicianrsquos doorstep only after their immune systems have been ravaged by medica-

tions with two pages of ldquoside-effectsrdquo written in fine print chemotherapy radiation or

aggressive surgeries and the prognosis becomes exceptionally grave Clearly stronger

intervention is needed

III Radical Medicinersquos Answer

In addition to these natural therapies of diet exercise and rest that were generally

prescribed for the sick both currently and in previous centuries to further facilitate

healing in modern-day patients who typically present with complex issues and mul-

tiple toxic insults one must first be a good detective That is in order to truly effect a



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8

cure it is imperative that the holistic physician or practitioner initially ascertains a cor-

rect diagnosis and through that understanding then prescribes an appropriate therapy

Just as in quality psychological work only when we know where wersquove been can we

see a clear direction of where we need to go In the same way in medicine the true

cause of a patientrsquos disease or dysfunction is always paramount and when it is revealed

through a thorough history exam and necessary laboratory work this well-considered

diagnosis both signals and shapes the appropriate treatment or treatments needed

Thus one must always endeavor go to the root of the problem in order to fully utilize

the knowledge and to master the methods of treatment that are conveyed in Radical

Medicine In fact the term radical for this field of holistic medicine was chosen not for its

common connotation of ldquounorthodoxrdquo or ldquoextremerdquo but for its original denotation as

that which goes ldquoto the root or originrdquo and that which is ldquofundamental far-reaching

and thoroughrdquoxxxiv

HOLISTIC DIAGNOSES

The term diagnosis derives from a Greek word that literally means to ldquosee throughrdquo

in order to arrive at a ldquosuperiorrdquo level of knowledge or understandingxxxv Thus a true

diagnosis according to the earliest Greek origins of the word requires that the physi-

cian ldquosee throughrdquo patientsrsquo various signs and symptoms in order to arrive at such a

masterful level of understanding that the actual cause of the disease or dysfunction is

clearly evident For example ldquoirritable bowel syndromerdquo (IBS)mdashalternating constipa-

tion and diarrhea with intermittent painmdashis not a valid ldquodiagnosisrdquo as Hippocratesand the early Greeks first defined it However ldquoirritable bowel syndrome secondary

to a gluten (wheat products) allergy14 and an appendix ldquoscar interference fieldrdquo15 ismdashin

that it ldquosees throughrdquo the patientrsquos overt bowel symptoms to the underlying deeper

causative factors Further this more descriptive and holistic diagnosis is much more

clarifying and thus often relieving to patients who in most cases have only received

the standard allopathic approach to IBSmdashthat is ldquostress reductionrdquo and suppressive

prescription drugs16 However when the true cause of their chronic pain and suffer-

ing is known this knowledge helps transform patientsrsquo despair into hope and also

into very real and tangible action in order to begin to initiate healing Thus this moredescriptive diagnosis ldquosees throughrdquo simply the overt symptoms to guide both the pa-

14 The diagnosis and treatment of food allergies are described in Chapter III15 Scar interference fields and other ldquodominant focirdquo are described in Chapter IV A scar interference field is any scarexternally (eg appendix hysterectomy hernia etc) or internally (post-surgical scars or chronic infection leavingscars in an organ or tissue) that creates chronic irritation and disturbance in the body Whatrsquos so insidious aboutinterference fields is that they rarely cause disturbance locally that is the scar is usually quite asymptomatic (has nosymptoms) However scar interference fields often create disturbed fields distally in other parts of the body such as ahysterectomy scar that can trigger intermittent migraine headaches fatigue andor depression16

Karl Menninger MD the innovative and brilliant psychiatrist who co-founded The Menninger Clinic in TopekaKansas for the treatment of mental illness noted that the very word cancer is enough to ldquokill some patients who wouldnot have succumbed (as rapidly) to the malignancy from which they sufferrdquo (Goldberg J Deceits of the Mind p 87)



Introduction

9

tient and the physician towards the most effective therapies as well as the possibility

of a real cure through treating the cause and not just the effects of disease

EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS

In many cases a holistic diagnosis indicates a specific treatment or treatments

through simply the removal of what the founder of homeopathy Samuel Hahnemann

referred to as the ldquoobstacles to curerdquoxxxvi In Hahnemannrsquos day in the late eighteenth

and early nineteenth centuries these obstacles included the excessive use of opium

ldquoblood-letting in torrentsrdquo and the widespread use of mercury-containing calomel

powderxxxvii Sadly two centuries later this highly toxic metal is still in widespread use

by conventional dentists and is even approved by the number one dental trade union

the American Dental Association (ADA) Thus our modern-day ldquoobstaclesrdquo still in-

clude the removal of mercury through the replacement of mercury amalgam fillings inour mouths with less toxic alternatives (Chapter II) Another obstruction in the way of

healing is the slow poisoning from toxic chemicals that are pervasive in every aspect of

our lives However by simply removing the toxic personal care and cleaning products

from our homes and workplaces and replacing them with non-toxic alternatives this

chemical load can be considerably lightened (Chapter II) Additionally chronic dental

focal infections such as failed root canals abscessed teeth and impacted or incorrectly

extracted wisdom teeth can be a major block to healing and frequently the instigator of

serious disease Often these teeth must be ldquosacrificedrdquo and removed through appropri-

ate cavitation surgery methods in order to fully restore health (Chapter IV)Other efficacious treatments described in Radical Medicine have originated in

Europe and are still so esoteric that only a small minority of knowledgeable and ho-

listically oriented physicians and practitioners utilize them in their practice However

their long-lasting and curative effects are so significant that the use of these remedies

and techniques in holistic medicine is truly indispensable These include gemmotherapy

remedies from Belgium to gently and effectively drain accumulated toxins from our

organs and tissues (Chapter I) and neural therapy from Germany or auriculotherapy

from France to treat chronic foci (scar interference fields and dental sinus tonsil and

genital focal infections) (Chapter IV) Another very essential therapy that originatedfrom Europe constitutional homeopathy is included in this book because it is the

single-most effective healing modality that specifically addresses a patientrsquos miasmic

or inherited susceptibility to disease Recently updated by the revolutionary contri-

butions of an Indian physician Dr Rajan Sankaran and his Bombay colleagues con-

stitutional homeopathy is an essential component to every patientrsquos healing protocol

(Chapter V) Other important treatments detailed in Radical Medicine include the use

of nutritional supplements and homeopathic nosodes in the treatment of vaccinosismdash that is disease and dysfunction caused by immunization (Chapter V) the importance

of functional appliances prescribed by orthopedically-oriented dentists in treating jaw



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10

joint dysfunction (TMD) and malocclusions (bad bites) (Chapter VI) and the need to

address through quality psychospiritual healing debilitating mental and emotional

aspects inherent in many individualrsquos early childhood development that can most in-

sidiously generate chronic illness (Chapter VII)

These ldquoradicalrdquo treatments are not only of major importance in the cure of many

degenerative diseases but also essential for those individuals who arenrsquot satisfied liv-

ing with even the ldquominorrdquo stress of chronic symptoms Further these mild aches and

pains intermittent constipation or diarrhea too frequent colds and flus moderate

fatigue and other relatively functional (versus seriously pathological) health issues

always signal some form of underlying disturbance thatmdashwithout effective interven-

tionmdashwill only continue to escalate as one ages Radical Medicine is therefore written

not just for the seriously ill but also for those who consider optimal health and the

freedom from chronic pain and dysfunction their birthright And it is further written

for those who have done everything that each new best-selling diet book and every

weekly magazine inserted in the Sunday paper recommends but who still continue to

suffer from chronic and sometimes debilitating symptoms or even simply an overall

lack of well being

Radical Medicine was additionally written to educate holistic doctors and practi-

tioners in order that they can more effectively serve the growing number of patients

dissatisfied with conventional allopathic medical care It is especially targeted toward

the doctors and practitioners with integrity and a caring attitude who have been less

than satisfied with their treatment results Through providing the underlying reasons

as to why such a great percentage of patients nowadays are so ldquotherapy resistantrdquo

and difficult to heal it is hoped that this book will resolve a great deal of confusion

for many frustrated practitioners Further Radical Medicinersquos numerous scientific refer-

ences should satisfy even the most skeptical physicians and hopefully rekindle the

original passion that first influenced their decision to study holistic medicine

Finally it is important to point out that addressing and healing all the various

chemical physical and emotional insults our bodies have suffered in these modern

times may not be quick in fact based on the amount of toxins most of us have been

subjected to it rarely is For example the estimated naturopathic time frame for get-

ting well is based on the general formula that it takes one month of treatment for every

year an individual has felt unwell Thus for a thirty-five year old with a mouthful of

amalgam fillings whorsquos been tired ever since her first pregnancy at age twenty it may

take around one and a half years after beginning effective treatment to feel consis-

tently energetic every day Or for a fifty year old with a history of years of antibiotics

prescribed for acne as a child it can take two or more years to effectively clear the

resulting intestinal dysbiosis (pathogenic bacteria and fungus) and repopulate the gut

(intestines) with healthy flora

There are benefits however to this more-lengthy journey of real cure versus the

often-advertised quick fixes This can be best understood through the spiritual prin-



Introduction

11

ciple that we are here to learn and evolve which is just as true for our physical bodies

as it is for our souls This truth was best expressed by the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran

in his masterpiece The Prophet as ldquoYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses

your understandingrdquoxxxviii Thus examining and clearing these physical obstacles that

act both as blocks and passageways to our self-understanding and spiritual growth is

an important (and some would argue even an essential) aspect in our psychospiritual

development Further the wisdom and strength gained from suffering as well as the

experience of feeling the demonstrable changes that effective treatment makes in our

bodies can instill a profound level of sensitivity and awareness rarely appreciated by

those seemingly lucky few who have always enjoyed robust health In fact in holistic

medicine there is a rather well known but unwritten law that patients who undergo

this physical metamorphosis are much more motivated to seek out advanced emo-

tional and spiritual growth work as their healing progresses And fortunately in con-

trast to the very numerous aforementioned drawbacks of our modern toxic age one

of the major benefits of living now is that psychological and spiritual healing is more

accepted today and much more readily accessible than it was even for our parents (or

grandparents depending on your age) Further these effective psychological therapies

and spiritual paths are not just helpful but essential for those evolved individuals who

have healed their physical bodies sufficiently enough to clearly feel the pull and attrac-

tion of the truly ultimate healing of self-understanding17 and Divine love And that of

course is always the most radical medicine of all

ENDNOTES

Hahnemann S (edited by OrsquoReilly W) Organon of the Medical Art Palo Alto CA Birdcage Books1996 p 227American Heart Association Statistical Highlights wwwamericanheartorgpresenter

jhtmlidentifier=1200026 2005 Update p 6wwwAmericanHeartAssociationorg Science and Professional Research IntroductionIdentifier 10809Ibid p 4

Fonder A The Dental Physician Rock Falls IL Medical-Dental Arts 1985 p 27Hillenmeyer K Pancreatic cancer a ldquosilentrdquo disease Santa Rosa The Press Democrat January 24 2006 p D-1Goldberg B Lies damn lies and statistics Alternative Medicine January 2002 p 12Begle S New statistics show increase not decline in cancer rates Our Toxic Times (reprinted from theWall Street Journal October 16 2002) December 2002 pp 19ndash20

17 The word self here refers to the realization of onersquos divine nature or ldquotruerdquo self in contrast to the separate ego This

was expressed in the ancient Indian scriptures called the Upanishads (~ 3000 BC) as the Atman ldquoThere are two selves the separate ego

And the indivisible Atman When

One rises above I and me and mine The Atman is revealed as onersquos real Self (Easwaran E The Upanishads p 96)

i

ii

iii

iv

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Goldberg B Lies damn lies and statistics Alternative Medicine January 2002 p 12Maugh II T Cancer No 1 killer in US Santa Rosa The Press DemocratThursday Jan 20 2005 p A5CDC Fast stats A to Z wwwcdcgovfastatscancerhtmBuckman R What You Really Need to Know About Cancer Baltimore Johns Hopkins

University Press 1997 p xiiiGoldberg B Lies damn lies and statistics Alternative Medicine January 2002 p 12IbidStarfield B Is US health really the best in the world JAMA Volume 284 4 2000 p 484Lazourou J et al Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients JAMA Volume 27915 April 15 1998 p 1204Ibid p 1203Ibid p 1204Starfield B Is US health really the best in the world JAMA Volume 284 4 2000 p 483

Johnson C and Stobbe M Study shows Americans sicker than English Associated Press httpnewsyahoocomsap20060502ap_on_he_mesick_America May 2 2006 p1Ibid p2Krugman P Sicker than we ought to be Santa Rosa CA The Press Democrat May 7 2006 pG1

httpwwwmedicalnewstodaycommedicalnewsphpnewsid=36608 Medical schools should bandrug company gifts samples contributions to continuing education JAMA paper states MedicalNews Today January 31 2006 p 1httpwwwihealthbeatorgindexcfmaction=mmediadanditemid=118308 JAMA Medical schoolsshould ban drug company gifts publish more information online I Health Beat

January 26 2006 p 1Coyne B Drug Co marketing threatens medical studentsrsquo independence The New Standard httpnewstandardnewsnetcontentaction=show_itemanditemid=2328 September 7 2005 p 1IbidIbidPaulin A Of Junk and Junkets Mother Jones JanuaryFebruary 2002 p 20Koerner B Dr No Free Lunch Mother Jones MarchApril 2003 p 24Angell M The Truth About Drug Companies New York Random House 2004 p xii

Kirchfield F and Boyle W Nature Doctors Portland Medicina Biologica 1994 p 21Lindlahr H Natural Therapeutics Volume II Essex EnglandC W Daniel Company 1981 pp 48-50IbidBrown L Ed The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Oxford Clarendon Press 1993 p 2462Ibid pp 659 and 1108Hahnemann S (edited by OrsquoReilly W) Organon of the Medical Art Palo Alto CABirdcage Books 1996 p 227Ibid pp 120-122Gibran K The Prophet New York Alfred AKnopf Inc 1923 p 52

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devastating illnesses that have become so epidemic in our modern world And sadly

the long awaited cures that doctors numerous charities and associations and various

telethons have been promising us for decades are ldquojust around the cornerrdquo continue

to remain elusive

bull CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASEmdashOUR NUMBER ONE KILLER

In 1900 the number of deaths resulting from heart attacks was 27427 in 2002

it was 696947ii These figures themselves dramatically depict the obvious failure of

modern medicine to find an adequate treatment for heart disease However when

another figure is added to the equationmdashthe 22 billion donated to the American

Heart Association since 1949 to find a curemdashthis failure is all the more conspicu-

ousiii In fact cardiovascular diseasemdasha more recently utilized category that encom-

passes all forms of heart disease including heart attacks congestive heart failure andstrokesmdashis currently the leading cause of death and disability in the US accounting

for 1400000 deaths in 2002iv 1

bull CANCERmdashWErsquoRE NOT WINNING THE WAR

In 1900 three percent of Americans were diagnosed with cancer during their life-

time Less than four decades later between 1907 and 1936 cancer rates had risen by

an astounding ninety percentvi Finally in 1971 President Nixon declared a ldquoWar on

Cancerrdquo and Congress passed the National Cancer Act to try and quell this epidemicdiseasevii

Based on numerous media reports over the next several decades it did appear that

allopathic medicine was making progress in treating this devastating disease with

chemotherapy radiation and surgery However the National Cancer Institute recently

reported that these previously optimistic reports on the decline of several types of

cancer were actually false and simply reflected significant delays in the reporting

of cancer cases In fact in 2002 this Institute revealed that many cancer rates have in

reality been on the rise including breast and lung cancer in women and prostate can-

cer in menviii

And although the often-touted incidence of lung cancer has declined inmen this has nothing to do with new medical treatments or advances in science but

correlates directly with the decline in smoking that began with the surgeon generalrsquos

emphasis on quitting in 1964 and the subsequent widespread advertising and educa-

1 Although it was recently reported that cancer had eclipsed heart disease as the number one disease killer thisstatistic did not include Americans over the age of eighty-five Further it only accounted for heart disease (myocardialinfarctions or heart attacks and angina pectoris or chest pain) and excluded other heart ailments that make up the

broader category of cardiovascular disease However when all ailments of the heart and circulatory system areincluded within this broader category cardiovascular disease far outweighs deaths from cancer (Maugh II T CancerNo1 killer in US Santa Rosa The Press Democrat Jan 20 2005)



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